Nonprofit bike shop seeks donation of new space

The Bike Shack, a volunteer-run nonprofit bike shop currently located in the U District, is looking for a new space in north Seattle.

The Bike Shack teaches people how to fix up their bicycles and provides parts and tools. It runs entirely off donations and, according to volunteer Jesse Card, 90% of all donations are currently spent on rent. “Our space has been halved from its previous amount of space,” Jesse says. “This has meant we have had to eliminate over half of all our parts as well as most of our work space.”

From Jesse:

Currently we live in a very rickety, leaky shack with no running water, bathroom access, and power provided only by a small solar array and/or an extension cord. So anything that gives us a secure, accessible space is completely acceptable.

If anyone even has any land available we’d like to know so that we could see about securing portable or temporary structures to use as our shop.